Re: [PATCH 13/14] kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path.

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 05:07:24PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> From: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The third parameter of kvm_unpin_pages() when called from
> kvm_iommu_map_pages() is wrong, it should be the number of pages to un-pin
> and not the page size.
> 

This got assigned CVE-2014-8369.

Quentin
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> While reviewing Red Hat 6.6 kernel patches to prepare Ksplice rebootless
> updates, we've stumbled accross a potential issue with the upstream fix for
> CVE-2014-3601:

> 350b8bd kvm: iommu: fix the third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages (CVE-2014-3601)

> The above commit is supposed to prevent extra pages un-pinning _and_ fix a
> memory leak, but by fixing the memory leak in the error path, it likely
> introduces way more unwanted un-pinning

Use CVE-2014-8369.

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